| From the BBC: Hosting the Games showed China& ??This partial lifting of censorship shows that the Chinese government is not completely insensitive to pressure. s Jeremy Goldkorn was on camera demonstrating how to use a virtual private network and noted that living with the net nanny wasn& content sites as listed above: how-to guides, health and medical advice, consumer/buyers guides, business/career pointers. A Wikipedia article should not read like a how-to style manual of instructions, advice (legal, medical, or otherwise) or suggestions, or contain how-tos. [4] If you are interested in a how-to style manual, you may want to look at Airbrush Vonotto or our sister project Wikibooks. From my feed of Yahoo News reporting on Wikipedia and Knol, here are my three tier ratings of how folks did on this story. Wait a bit with him, and nothing shows. I was lucky enough to find one queueing up, and the driver interested in gabbing. He said they are indeed limited, to around 30 in the city, and they will continue to stay in service even after all the Olympics are over. Today, Hu Jintao held a rare pow-wow of media outlets in the wake of Internet restrictions being eased. s appearance before foreign reporters Friday was a rare move into the public spotlight for a leader who has long shunned it. t take much time to celebrate and continues to push hard. ??This partial lifting of censorship shows that the Chinese government is not completely insensitive to pressure. If the entire world had been pressuring China since 2001, even before these games were assigned to Beijing, the situation might have been different today. s be clear though: these unblocked sites are still subject to the sophisticated keyword blocking system of the GFW, which looks at both URLs and the body of web sites. On the plus side, it seems the keyword filtering of the GFW seems to be less sensitive than normal, but the big taboo subjects are still blocked quickly. s Jeremy Goldkorn was on camera demonstrating how to use a virtual private network and noted that living with the net nanny wasn& s really going to impede anybody& Internet to do their job and this issue goes away for the next three weeks. Perhaps the cry of reporters in the Beijing Olympic Media Center finally made it through to the organizers that they should follow through on their promise. Maybe they thought the journalists would be too busy writing about the bad pollution problems instead. So for now, kudos to the authorities for opening up these sites, even though every indication is that the authorities will revert to pre-Olympic policies around October 17. John Kennedy suggested a betting pool as to when the sites will be reblocked. t kno why Livejournal is a bigger threat to China than things like RFA mandarin edition Sometimes you need a sense of humor to deal with the net nanny. New subjects crop up each day, and the task by the deadline is to demystify a topic for the general public. A common technique is to use familiar markers to interpret new ones. Give the reader something they know to help understand things they don& The new Blackberry Curve is the answer to the iPhone. which is meant to & to the free encyclopedia. The head-to-head matchup seems obvious because Wikipedia is the only thing that immediately comes to mind to most writers when thinking & It seems it was too tempting to stick by the story, portraying nonprofit David competing against corporate search king Goliath. To see exactly why Wikipedia is such a bad comparison, consider the main aspects of Google Knol [1] [2]: Goal: & first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read& Articles are controlled by a single author, who has to use a real name. Google will not serve as an editor in any way& content sites as listed above: how-to guides, health and medical advice, consumer/buyers guides, business/career pointers. These are exactly the things Wikipedia has insisted it does not want to be. A Wikipedia article should not read like a how-to style manual of instructions, advice (legal, medical, or otherwise) or suggestions, or contain how-tos. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, game guides, and recipes. [4] If you are interested in a how-to style manual, you may want to look at Airbrush Vonotto or our sister project Wikibooks. s please stop pitting these two against each other. From my feed of Yahoo News reporting on Wikipedia and Knol, here are my three tier ratings of how folks did on this story. I will not even bother hyperlinking to the stories I considered faulty analysis. Poor Google launches Wikipedia rival Knol (ZDNet UK) Google Launches Its Challenge To Wikipedia With Wide Release Of Knol (airbrush-vonotto.com via Yahoo! s version of Wikipedia (BetaNews) Google infiltrates the knowledge sharing game (SiliconIndia) Google unveils Wikipedia-like tool (Australian IT) Average Google& Working for the Olympics as an IT contractor, I recently moved to the Media Village (where all of the reporters live) and was surprised the there was no free internet. t believe that not only do I have to deal with the Great Firewall of China, but also pay through the nose to use it! My problem perhaps was thinking there was a reasonable way of getting from Cairo airport directly to Alexandria by some means of conveyance. Note to CAI airport: cramming both departing and arriving passengersthrough one small doorway is not a smart idea. m hounded by scores of limo and taxi drivers trying to scam visitors into a hotel or a cab ride. I try to lose these hangers on and head right to the Information counter. The one guy with a computer screen of flight info knew nothing about buses and trains to Alexandria, and it seemed like he barely understood my English question. After seeing my failure to get anything useful from INFORMATION the limo drivers slapped the & label on my forehead, and again swirled around me giving dubious information and trying to ply their wares. Even when I said no, they trailed along like Pikmin asking to & ve travelled to too many sketchy places in Asia to fall for that trap. I do a lap around the airport terminal and there is no tourist information booth or other helpers, only paid services counters who I never trust for general info. I finally found a security guard who points to a location in the distance saying buses to Alexandria are out there. Walk across the sky bridge to an adjacent modern mall, drag luggage up steps, down steps, through sand, under a railing and across broken pavement. Along the way two drivers insist they can drive me to Alexandria for 400 LE. re not going to get me. I stumble around the parking lot asking a few folks about the mythical bus to Alexandria, who keep pointing out on the horizon. Walk to Wikimania. m looking for, I got to a covered depot with no English destination signs, only Arabic. Went back to fellow who pointed it out, and said, & Walked to the back, cracked open the door to find some attendant sleeping on a makeshift cot. How long it would take to get to the destination? Yes, but you have to go to downtown Cairo to take that, by that time might was well take four hour bus. s all too risky. Took three tries to find a police guy in white military outfit who spoke enough English to understand what I was talking about. (hands clasped together, head cocked left, eyes closed and snoring sound) helped. Walking across the auto toll lanes that don& t have a crosswalk, I ambled to the airport hotel at 8 am. m going to have to pay full rack rate for a room at 116 euros, but that sounded much less painful than hypothetical bus arriving & to who knows where arriving hopefully some time before sunset. s already 20 hours of travel into this endeavour, and I& ve been foiled at every turn to get to Alexandria & Am I going to argue? Just ticking the minutes down when the formal Wikimania bus arrives tomorrow to get me to the conference, when I get to see some friendly faces, and don& t have to deal with this whole slog. I get up to check to see if the room& The idea is to have the community write about the future of Wikipedia. The product will by licensed as CC-BY-SA, so it can continue to evolve. We already have a nice buzz of activity, so hope to see you there! ll be glad to hear that it& ™…) in Chaoyang district: appears to be a Shetland Sheepdog, found 24 hours ago on Sunday afternoon. Will be turned over to the police in the next day, according to Central Park management, and fate will likely not be good. ), Global Trade Mansion, the new Eton School branch (ä Responds to Chinese commands. Thanks to all that spread the word. t make for good pictures. I suppose one could make the argument that leaving the restricted GFW & Walked to the back, cracked open the door to find some attendant sleeping on a makeshift cot. BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games) is charging a ridiculous amount of money for ADSL service: for 512/512 it costs 7712. |
